Learning how to navigate nonfiction successfully is so important as students ascend into higher grade levels! In order to comprehend what they read, research suggests that they must be able to understand how to interpret and utilize the text features that are unique to nonfiction! This 64 page packet includes several ideas and resources to spice up your instruction! Happy Teaching!
Amanda Nickerson (One Extra Degree)
Title page p. 1
NF posters and practice sheets p. 2- 34
Scavenger hunt mini-posters p. 35- 51
(Color for hunt. B&W for reference books.)
Additonal ideas: p. 52-60
NF/Fiction observation sheets: p. 61-62
More Ideas p. 63
Thank You/Credits p. 64
Nonfiction Features:
* title
* heading
* subheading
* caption
* types of print
* labels
* cutaway
* Table of Contents
* Index
* Glossary
* diagram
* photograph
* close-up
* graph
This has been sooo helpful in teaching nonfiction text features! I have the charts posted in my room and refer to them all the time! Thanks so much!!
February 3, 2013
gfarrior
I absolutely love the materials in this packet. I used them to teach/introduce nonfiction text feartures. Kids really understand and use it when they read nonfiction. Thanks!!
January 30, 2013
JennMcKnight
Perfect! Thanks!
January 27, 2013
kwoods
Great resource!
January 21, 2013
joannagail
thanks
January 20, 2013
leighbortz
Can't wait to use these...fantastic poster set!!
January 15, 2013
teacher858
Love your work! Great info text features! Thanks!
January 14, 2013
annalyman
Amazing! Thank you for making this unit so much easier :)
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
Veronica Drew
I see you made a revision to the arctic snow business unit. Could you please tell me what was added or changed so that I can just re-print those pages? :)
Sure thing! I realized a typo on the nonfiction feature poster for the title. I had left off an s on the word tells. Now it is fixed. :) Sorry for the inconvenience.
I just want to say thanks so much for taking the time to add the title, heading and subheading. I love your ideas and I can't wait to do this next week. Thanks and have a great weekend!
I am printing these right now and had a thought (since you are ALWAYS so helpful!!) ... is there any way you could make a cover to go with this? I'm thinking I will have my kids make a book using the practice pages included in this pack, plus their own examples that they create using polar animals for each feature. I would make one, but I thought since you have the cute fonts and clip art, it would look A LOT better if it came from you and matched everything else in the packet!! Just let me know ... thanks so much!!
No problem, Liz! I will probably have to wait to tackle that this weekend though. I am taking two classes this semester, and one of them is my capstone, so I am a little swamped during the week! :) I promise to make the additions as soon as I get the chance! I just got home, and I'm eating dinner at 8 pm. Yay! Hahahaha. I won't be home tomorrow night until almost 10:00 after class. So, long story short, I will do my best! Thanks for always being so supportive and upbeat!
This is the most perfect timing ever as I am starting a nonfiction unit with polar animals next week! Just a question ... with the posters and practice pages (which are SUCH a great idea!!), is there a student practice page for each text feature? Thanks so much and I look forward to hearing back from you!!
For each poster, I created a black and white version for student use. It looks exactly the same, but instead of including the definitions, I made lines for the students to write in the definitions themselves. Other than that, I like to have my students create nonfiction feature books from blank white paper using examples from books. This is more of a stepping stone for that. I hope that makes sense and answers your question. If you feel like it's missing something, let me know, and I will see what I can do. :)